From Southern Iraq, Reports
Of Unrest and Heavy Fighting

Details are still vague, but it appears that some sort of uprising against Iraqi loyalists is underway in the majority-Shiite Muslim city of Basra.

U.S. and British military leaders say intelligence reports from the country's southern capital, long the home of repressed hatred for Mr. Hussein, indicated people were taking to the street. The outskirts of Basra have been the site of some of the war's fiercest fighting, and British troops today reversed a decision to bypass the urban warfare there citing the humanitarian...